Devils Lake Thrives as West North Dakota Growth Surges
The Fargo Record surveys Devils Lake, noting thriving trade, rising land sales, and a hopeful winter with abundant crops and high flax prices. It highlights movers to the region, new wagon bridge plans, a rebuilt roller mill, and arrivals of settlers from the east and Dun-kards from Pennsylvania and Ohio bound for North Dakota settlements.
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Devils Lake
Fargo
Rae Brown & Co
Henry Hale
Uncle Sam
Thorsen
Heerman
Minnie H
J. O. Baughman
Sevilla
Hanson
North Dakota
Bottineau
Minot
Soo
Northern Pacific
Northwest
Dakotas
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Immigration boom as settlers flood into Minnesota
The Minneapolis Tribune notes Wednesday as the heaviest homeseekers day in nineteen years. Great Northern Railway brought in most settlers, many from Iowa Missouri and Kansas. Extra trains ran, total movers around a thousand with 160 carloads of household goods. Great Northern also departed many colonists from St Paul.
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Minneapolis ‘Tribune
St. Paul
Great Northern Railway
Iowa
Missouri
Kansas
Population boom noted by Col Lounsberry
Colonel Lounsberry reports vast immigration shaping state settlement. He cites railroads driving growth and lists 1899 homestead filings by Devils Lake, Minot, and Forks districts totaling 9,029, signaling extensive new settlement activity across districts.
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Lounsberry
Col
Devils Lake
Gand Forks
Trans-Mississippi Congress sets Houston for next meeting
The tenth session of the Trans Mississippi Commercial Congress held in Wichita Kansas May 3 1st 2nd 3rd chose Houston Texas for the next gathering. Delegates from states and territories west of the Mississippi plus portions of Minnesota and Louisiana east of it endorsed dates and aims to promote growth, reciprocal trade and harmonized national legislation among 2.7 million square miles and 20 million people in the region.
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Wichita
Kan
Houston
Texas
Mississippi River
Minnesota
Louisiana
Congress
Vast Influx of Settlers Expected for 1900 Census
The speaker notes tens of thousands of new settlers arriving in the state, with about 75 000 this year and up to 200 000 by June 1. He cites railroad expansion and new industries as drivers, predicting a population surge to 450 000 by 1900, boosting congressional representation and altering legislative districts.
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Tlers
Northern Pacific Railroad Company
Congress
False Rumor Case Reaches Dakota Command Post
False rumor of an uprising among the Turtle Mountain Indians prompted Capt Campbell, a son of General Wade, and Molla Star to travel from Fort Snelling to investigate. The tale began with a Winnipeg report from a Manitoba justice of the peace, then to the American consul in Winnipeg before Washington relayed orders to Fort Snelling.
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Molla Star
Campbell
Wade
Department of the Dakotas
Fort Snelling
Minn
Turtle Mountain
Houston Prepares for Trans-Mississippi Congress Reception
The governor and city leaders set rules for delegates to the Trans-Mississippi Commercial congress opening April 17. Houston plans a mass meeting to arrange a worthy welcome as the event ranks second to the National congress. April 21 marks Sam Houston’s Texans victory over Santa Anna. Tom Richardson, secretary in Houston, will answer inquiries.
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United States Congress
Congress
Houston
National Congress
San Jacinto
United States
Sam Houston
Santa Anna
Mexico
Tom Richardson
Training School For Teachers At Devils Lake
At a Fargo conference State Superintendent Halland and county superintendents arranged a summer training school at Devils Lake for Ramsey and Benson counties. Beginning July 2 and lasting three weeks, it assists teachers attending Chautauqua by enabling daily commutes to the high school building for training before returning to the grounds for rest and entertainment.
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Fargo
Halland
Fancher
Devils Lake
Ramsey
Benson
Chautauqua
Free Sugar Beet Seed Offered by North Dakota Station
The government experiment station for North Dakota will mail a small package of sugar beet seed to any farmer who wishes to try growing sugar beets. Grow according to station instructions and send a fair beet sample to the college in the fall for analysis. Address Experiment Station Agricultural College ND.
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North Dakota
Agricultural College
N.D
Brown & Co Advertises Investments in Devils Lake
Wm H Brown & Co promotes money making through real estate and securities. They tout farm homes town properties improved land and gilt edge securities, urging investment now as farming prosperity grows with Fort Totten reservation and lake bridge, noting their abstracts and client interests protect investments in Devils Lake North Dakota.
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Wm. H. Brown & Co
Brown & Co
Fort Totten
Devils Lake
America
Wu. H- Brown & Co
N. D
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U.S
F. W. Schindler
Immigration
Reid
City Gate
Teachers’ Training School
Inter-Ocean
Louis Hansen
the Hotel Sevilla
Baughman
Bates
Devila Lake
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